Former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is leaving no one in doubt that he calls the shots in the party as he has penciled down his key men to lead the new National Assembly, NASS, to be inaugurated early June.
With the party’s power sharing formula, Tinubu has positioned his men to takeover available positions zoned to the regions. APC zoned the Senate Presidency to the North-Central, Speakership to the South-West, Tinubu’s region, which also produced the Vice President, the Secretary to Government of the Federation, SGF to the South-East and the Senate Majority Leader to the South-West.
Going by the zoning arrangement, the battle on how to fill the vacancies has started in earnest with Tinubu said to have lined up three strong contenders to take over the leadership of the 8th NASS.
He is alleged to be backing Senator George Akume, former Benue State Governor and long time political ally from the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN to be the Senate President.
In the same vein, Tinubu is backing Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, his political protégé to take over as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, while at the same time positioning his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to be the Senate Majority Leader.
Though he is said to be facing stiff opposition from those backers of Senator Bukola Saraki, mainly from the party’s governors, Nigerian Pilot learnt that he is playing a religious card in pushing the candidature of Akume and Gbajabiamila.
Tinubu’s argument, it was gathered, is that if Saraki is allowed to be Senate President, and Hon. Gbajabiamila becomes the Speaker, it would open the party to criticisms given the fact that the President-elect is a Muslim and both Saraki and Gbajabiamila are also Muslims.
According to Tinubu’s argument, the religious balancing would come only when the Senate president is a Christian and the natural choice is Akume.
The former Lagos governor also allegedly blackmailed Saraki’s backers with a case of N21billion preferred against the former governor of Kwara State by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police. He purportedly told them that the party cannot be championing anti-corruption and at the same time promoting someone who has such a “dirty” case still hanging on his neck. This, according to insiders, has ruffled many feathers in the APC hierarchy with many afraid the party may slide into a one-man show.
The zoning of Speakership to the South-West, it is understood, has caused a friction between Tinubu and Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the party’s national chairman, who had passionately pleaded that the party zone the slot to the South-South in order for his preferred candidate, Mr. Pally Iriase, from Edo State to get the office. For all Odigie-Oyegun’s pleas, Tinubu reminded him how he also went against the wishes of many and installed him as the APC chairman.
With the Vice President-elect, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo being Tinubu’s ally, Odigie-Oyegun’s argument is that it would amount to unexplainable greed for the party to allow Tinubu to also take the Speakership slot.
However, Tinubu is understood to have stood his ground, threatening to throw the Speakership position open to contest, a position he well understands he would have upper hand because of the number of House of Representatives members from the South-West as compared to Odigie-Oyegun’s South-South.
If Tinubu bulldozes his way through as he is bent on doing, it means that he would have been responsible for three of the four most powerful positions in Nigeria. He singlehandedly nominated the vice president-elect.
Meanwhile, the zoning of the SGF to the South-East has opened a fresh battle on who succeeds Chief Anyim Pius Anyim between Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu and Dr. Chris Ngige, all former governors and eminently qualified for the office.
Insiders in the party are favouring Onu, arguing that he is more of a stabiliser, tilting towards a technocrat than Ngige who is seen as an everyday politician.
Onu’s maturity and for the fact that he comes from the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP wing of the APC, may stand him in good stead ahead of Ngige who comes from the ACN wing of the party. ANPP has not really benefitted much in terms of sharing positions in the party and if it is still denied this, it may cause great disaffection in the party.

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kikikikikikikikiki am just laughing at this incoming govt.Tinubu has struck a goldmine they are already begging him for position and the cracks are manifesting.

What about noisy Amaechi nobody is talking about him

Laughing in zulu

Notice that part of the reasons why Tinubu opposes Saraki is that there is an allegation against him. This man is a politician. He brings people like Buhari, Osinbajo, Femi, Fashola with clean profiles and record of hardwork so that they will be popularly accepted and the party's image will progress though he himself remains a thief. So monkey go dey work and baboon go dey chop for secret. Well so far as his choices always perform I don't care. At least he is a thief with vision. A thief with care for progress and development.

Tinubu is positioning himself as a check on the northern influence in the incoming government, if he can get the senate president and house speaker position, he will consolidate his position and the north will respect and fear his influence. The mistakes the founding fathers of PDP made cannot be repeated by Tinubu, definately he is the new Maradona of Nigerias politics.

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Apc is one of tinubu's many cOmpanies . Abeg, let the rift continues... GEJ my HERO! FAYOSE my ROLE MODEL!!

OilGas:
Notice that part of the reasons why Tinubu opposes Saraki is that there is an allegation against him. This man is a politician. He brings people like Buhari, Osinbajo, Femi, Fashola with clean profiles and record of hardwork so that they will be popularly accepted and the party's image will progress though he himself remains a thief. So monkey go dey work and baboon go dey chop for secret. Well so far as his choices always perform I don't care. At least he is a thief with vision. A thief with care for progress and development.

Can you swear on this people you mentioned that they are clean?

This high level politicking is expected to happen.

Negotiations will take place but at the end of the day we want those who can perform.

Some people would be surprised at how tinubu would be sidelined by northerners. Una never see anything

still reading

I wonder this fixation on Tinubu by fake bloggers

Interesting. Seems Nigeria has its own Al Capone

ishiamu:


Can you swear on this people you mentioned that they are clean?

By our Nigerian dictionary; compared to N2trn campaign spenders; $20bn oil scammers; N1.7trn subsidy fraudsters; pension scammers; immigration scammers; N299bn NDDC budgeters; N260mln bullet proof car buyers....... Yes they are.

What about Amaechi?

When the time comes we will know our political office holders and who installs them in office.

OilGas:


By our Nigerian dictionary; compared to N2trn campaign spenders; $20bn oil scammers; N1.7trn subsidy fraudsters; pension scammers; immigration scammers; N299bn NDDC budgeters; N260mln bullet proof car buyers....... Yes they are.

Lol, perfect response .

Tinubu said It behind camera........."I lack nothing, I have. Everything. I could. Ever want, but Nigerians are. Suffering and we must do something before we go." So everything he's doing now, all. The people he's fighting are people he's sure would do a good job. So no worries. Jagaban knows what he's doing.

staymore:
What about Amaechi?

I don't think party chieftains want him in the new govt inner caucus. They may dash him NDDC chairman.

All thesame i love tinubu for bringing change to Nigeria.

Tinubu is right by his analysis

OilGas:


By our Nigerian dictionary; compared to N2trn campaign spenders; $20bn oil scammers; N1.7trn subsidy fraudsters; pension scammers; immigration scammers; N299bn NDDC budgeters; N260mln bullet proof car buyers....... Yes they are.

Now I understand what you mean... you mean the ones you mentioned are small thieves while the others are big thieves.... thank you

Keep spreading lies

Though Tinubu is a thief with 700 itchy and sticky fingers, he knows how to position men that can deliver. This is what has been working for him.

Ride on Jagaban till the gates of prison close in on you one day.

Wonderful, in a wonderland of fraudulent gathering of compromised elements.

No position should be given to the south east. They should be marginalized. The thinking of an average tribalistic bigot. Let me start the statement because i know someone must make a tribal statement. But note that we would survive without government handout.

staymore:
What about Amaechi?

Nd obj nko
Obj no get slot

cooljude:
No position should be given to the south east. They should be marginalized. The thinking of an average tribalistic bigot. Let me start the statement because i know someone must make a tribal statement.

Lol
Hw many times do u need to knw d east don give a Bleep bout APC

Waiting Hw tinubu we develop we Yorubas

Patiently waiting to see how Tinubu would pull this off. If he manages to checkmate Buhari and the Northern power bloc that is certain to congeal around his presidency as soon as he assumes power, then I would reluctantly concede - from a purely utilitarian and amoral point of view - that Tinubu is the greatest Nigerian politician of all time. HOWEVER, like I said, I patiently wait to see how events would unfold.

game of throne.

Amaechi is d Driver for Kaduna state governor elect

HMmmm